For the past week or two I have been working on my first essay for this class. The first essay is a argumentative essay on crime and punishment. I decided to write my essay on lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18. Through out my essay I am discussing reasons why I think the drinking age should be lowered. Also I am talking about how a lot of people are on my side about lowering the drinking age, but also a lot of people are against lowering the drinking age.  I struggled a little bit when I was trying to begin my essay, but after I got started on it I was on a roll from there. I actually am really enjoying writing this essay because I feel very passionate about what I am writing about and I am also enjoying researching different information on this topic. I have already wrote almost 1,000 words and it is suppose to be around 1,500+. I really don't have much more I have to finish writing. I need to finish one paragraph and then do my conclusion paragraph. After that I just need to clean it up a bit and check over it and make corrections. I hope that the other essays we do in this class will be just as good as this essay has been for me.